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manchesterhistories.co.uk manchesterhistories.co.uk 3 – 12 JUNE 2016 Manchester Histories t: 0161 306 1982 e: [email protected] w: www.manchesterhistories.co.uk @mcrhistfest manchesterhistories manchesterhistories Registered Charity No. 1151944 Company Registered in England & Wales No. 08283259 manchesterhistories.co.uk 1 2 manchesterhistories.co.uk manchesterhistories.co.uk WELCOME TO THE WHAT’S ON FOURTH MANCHESTER For a full searchable calendar, please visit the MHF website HISTORIES FESTIVAL www.manchesterhistories.co.uk TEASERS 2 TALKS 20 Manchester Histories Festival is for people who CELEBRATION DAY 3 WALKS & TOURS 24 JOIN IN 4 VENUES 31 like histories and people who think they don’t. FOR FAMILIES 10 DAY BY DAY GUIDE 32 BE ENTERTAINED 12 VISITING GREATER MANCHESTER 34 I’m very proud that over the last 6 years, since our first event in 2009, the festival has transformed from a 2-day pilot to a 10-day diverse celebration of the histories and heritage of Greater Manchester. EXHIBITIONS 16 INFORMATION 35 For the first time, we will have a continual presence in Central Library’s Archives+, delivering a programme BEHIND THE SCENES 18 PARTNERS 36 of events and activities and hosting a Festival Information Stand, where our excellent volunteers will be able to answer your questions and tell you more about festival goings on. We’re delighted to welcome a number of new partners to this year’s festival, revealing the many voices whose histories have often been forgotten, unheard or undervalued. It is also wonderful to be able to showcase some of the projects that we have been involved with throughout the year and provide the opportunity for them to reach a wider audience. We hope that the festival challenges your views of histories and heritage, introduces you to new experiences and stories, and you have the chance to get involved in thinking about your own role in making our past and future histories. There are many opportunities to learn more from fascinating talks, music nights, digital games, heritage skills workshops and lots of hands-on activities that you can take part in: become an urban sketcher, join a cycling tour of Manchester, make your own oar in Salford, or join in a family game of Snakes and Ladders in Stockport. I would also like to extend a big thank you to all our partners, sponsors, supporters, volunteers and audiences without whom the festival would not be possible. We are thrilled that you are involved. We hope that you have a fascinating and fun time during the festival, celebrating our remarkable past and considering our potential futures. Claire Turner, Chief Executive, Manchester Histories 1 manchesterhistories.co.uk manchesterhistories.co.uk TEASERS CELEBRATION DAY There is something for everyone, including our pre-festival Saturday 11 June 10.30am – 4.00pm Trailblazer, and here are a few ideas of different events you Manchester Town Hall & Manchester Central Library might enjoy. MHF’s Celebration Day provides a focus for the festival bringing together histories and heritage groups from across Greater Manchester Manchester Histories Making Manchester to redefine attitudes to sexuality and providing a wide range of activities to entertain, inform, challenge across the city and beyond, Festival Trailblazer Event 9am – 5.30pm, Fri 3 – Fri 10 June and engage all ages. including rarely seen images (not Sat & Sun) Landscapes of Identity and footage. Nearly 90 exhibitors will be present in Manchester Town Hall including Manchester Technology Centre 11am – 4.45pm, Wed 18 May the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, Back on Track, FREE Book at www.bandonthewall.org National Football Museum Co-operative Archives, Greater Manchester Fire Museum, Jodrell Bank and Wood Street Mission. £6.50 (£4) This exhibition by Manchester Destination Ireland Join in with our real time and digital treasure hunt suitable Modernists recreates the Snapshot As the 20th anniversary of the for all ages; listen to the and never-to-be-built visions of 6.30pm, Sun 5 June Manchester Beethoven Orchestra 1996 Manchester bombing ; take part in a panel discussion about 1960s Manchester, including Irish World Heritage Centre Manchester Community Choir approaches, Manchester School the ; practice your sketching skills in our highways in the sky, elevated £3 (£1.50) histories of homelessness of Art, Manchester School ; find out what links walkways, monorails and Sketch Your Street workshop lifeboats and the of Architecture, Manchester have with Greater Manchester; or take a . moving pavements. Collating documentary and RNLI heritage bus ride Metropolitan University, private film footage held in the Free talks and film screenings will take place in the Town Hall and Manchester Histories Festival and North West Film Archive, these Central Library including the founding of the 1001 Inventions exhibition the National Football Museum M-HISTORIES exciting short films explore the started in Manchester; journalist Dean Kirby reveals the stories of present an event to discuss and WEEKENDER diversity of journeys between Angel Meadow; or find out why the ice cream cone was created by explore the changes in the City’s Fri & Sat 3 & 4 June Manchester and Ireland across Italian ice cream makers in Manchester. historical, physical and cultural the 20th century. characteristics and the roles of Coffee Nubia For full listings of Celebration Day events and how to book, Book at www.iwhc.com heritage, design, art and culture FREE please go to the MHF website or call 0161 306 1982. or 0161 205 4007 in shaping its future identity. The second edition of Book at M-HISTORIES WEEKENDER An Audience with https://loi16.eventbrite.co.uk celebrating Moss Side’s international heritage through FA Cup Heroes at a wonderful programme of the Manchester exhibitions, events and activities. United Museum For times and full details, 6pm – 8pm, Wed 8 June check the MHF website Manchester United Museum £5 Queer Noise: The Hidden An after-hours tour of the History of LGBT Music in Manchester United Museum Manchester and the chance to pose your 8pm, Fri 3 June questions to FA Cup winners Band on the Wall Arthur Albiston and Lee Martin. FREE but booking required Find out more about United’s rich history. A lively presentation exploring Book at museum.enquiries@ how queer music and club manutd.co.uk culture in Manchester helped 2 3 manchesterhistories.co.uk manchesterhistories.co.uk Mcr & Lancashire Family Dear Friend: Collectors JOIN IN History Society Saturday & Commissioners, Help Desk Women in the Arts 10.30am – 3.30pm, Sat 4 & 11 June 1pm – 4pm, Sat 4 June SnapShot Mapping Manchester Angel Meadow Manchester Central Library Manchester Art Gallery FREE FREE Fri 3 – Sun 12 June Fri 3 – Fri 10 June (weekdays only) Community Histories Day Online The John Rylands Library 3.30am – 4pm, Sat 4 June In addition to extending the Come and learn more about FREE FREE but booking essential Angel Meadow & Sadler’s Yard MLFHS Help Desk to Saturdays women in the arts across FREE for MHF, RootsChat.com, the free history. They have been artists, Join our Manchester Histories’ Become a map detective and online genealogy forum will also collectors, commissioners and digital treasure hunt to discover investigate the history and A day of activities, photography be available to provide advice on patrons. Write a letter to a and share images and stories geography of Manchester with workshops, talks and walks Sat 4th and UK BMD, the online woman who did amazing things, of Greater Manchester’s hidden six historical maps, in these two highlighting the fascinating record of births, marriages, be that collector and connoisseur histories through Twitter and hour bookable workshops for area that is Angel Meadow: deaths and censuses, from Mary Greg or gallery owner Creating and Using Instagram. Simply play for fun Years 4 – 6 school groups. from archaeology to genealogy, 10.30am – 1pm on Sat 11th. Barbara Tate. Archives Workshop or sign up to the leader board, Book at 0161 306 6558 deprivation to regeneration, gain points for your creativity or come down and find out more! 2.30pm – 4.30pm, Sat 4 June interesting facts and try to win Manchester District Reviving the Lost Art of Manchester Central Library See MHF website for full details a prize. Full training provided. Talkin’ ‘bout that Music Archives presents: Make Do and Mend FREE but booking essential Sign up to take part at the MHF Representation Activist/Archivist 1pm – 4pm, Sat 4 June website or call 0161 306 1982 for Oral History Workshop How can you create your own 2pm – 4pm, Fri 3 June 12pm – 2pm & 3pm – 5pm, Stitched Up HQ archive with no funds; how more info 9.30am – 11.30am, Sat 4 June Working Class Movement Library Sat 4 June FREE should items be catalogued, Manchester Central Library FREE but booking essential People’s History Museum and how do you store them FREE but booking essential Spend a fun afternoon with Hidden History FREE properly? Dave Govier, Heritage Stitched Up in Chorlton trying Are you passionate about the Collection Officer for Manchester Fri 3 – Fri 10 June (weekdays only) Manchester Metropolitan Hear fascinating stories from out vintage human-powered lowering of the vote for 16 year City Council, will introduce you The John Rylands Library University’s Fiona Cosson Manchester music’s movers and sewing machines and harking olds? Were you involved in the to archives and how to create FREE but booking essential will lead this practical oral shakers, told through a series of back to a time when Manchester votes for 18 movement that your own. lowered the voting age in 1969. histories workshop about rarely seen artefacts and materials. was the centre of the British Students can investigate This event will bring together the the key basics for starting Bring along your own prized textile industry.